Sachin Shah wrote:
ok so I am quite new to Zope, and I am wondering if this is a feature or a bug (using the zope site as an example):
http://www.zope.org/Documentation
results in the Documents page
results in the resources page, BUT so does:
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Resources
Whether it is a feature or a bug, how can I stop it from doing that?
(PS. If it is a feature, I would appreciate any sort of explanation as to what is happening to make this occur.)
Ahh...the wonders of acquisition. The URL http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Resources has Zope first look in the Documentation folder for an object called Resources. When it doesn't find one, it goes up the 'namespace stack', which typically is the list of folders in the path in the URL. In this case, the parent to Documentation, the root folder, is searched next, where it does find an object called Resources. The power of this is that Resources, accessed from either location, _can_ behave differently because it has a different _context_. How do you prevent it? Well, you can't, but you can design your site so that you don't create links that take you to unwanted URLs like the above. For example, on the Zope site, the side bar has a relative link to "Resources". They don't worry about that because acquisition makes it possible. However, they could have the sidebar link to "/Resources", then it always goes to Resources from the root. I hope this clears thinks up a bit. Actually, it won't because acquisition still confuses a lot of us. :-) Cheers... Bruce -- Bruce Elrick, Ph.D. Saltus Technology Consulting Group Personal: belrick@home.com IBM Certified Specialist Business: belrick@saltus.ab.ca ADSM, AIX Support, RS/6000 SP, HACMP